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Friday, April 13, 2007

This weeks' Double Happiness! Family FotoFun Friday Challenge is "Pets". This is certainly something the twins have lots of!!

The girls are still pretty scared of most of the animals but Faith seems to be getting more comfortable around them than Hope. They are still very afraid of the "BIG DOGS" though -- a chihuahua and a terrier mix ;)

They've just had a new litter a kittens and Mom let the girls bring two in the house for a photo shoot --Faith decides to take over both of the kittensThis is the first lamb born after the girls came home and Faith was willing to get pretty close -- Hope wouldn't even come near the pen.Two of the newest baby lamps.Hope on the left and Faith on the right.The girls watering the sheep -- when you have this many pets, there's bound to be chores!Taking a break.Baby LlamaMamma LlamaHonky DonkeyStanding watch -- the llamas and the donkey guard the sheep from "Wild Things".

I had to come back and add this picture -- it's MY kitty (Silver), who now lives with the twins because Mimi travels so much. I do miss her and am always glad to get a chance to visit her as well as the girls! Funny thing about this picture, Mom took it sometime last year and somehow managed to save it on her camera in such a way that it could NOT be deleted so whenever she started sending pictures from China last October, this was always the first picture I would see -- imagine being SO excited to see my new little granddaughters and what pops up but a cat! :)

Portrait

Words can not express how thankful we are to have had this experience and to meet these wonderful people. Thank you to all the people at the Today Show, Kathie Lee Gifford, Hoda Kotb, Jayme Baron, Paulo Szot, David Friedman, and Robert Maniscalco.

The song was amazing, how honored we are to have our very own song to share with the girls as they grow older.

About Me

Our long journey to our precious children began in 2004. My husband and I decided to adopt after we
lost our three beautiful children to a drunk driver
in 2004 in Texas. We felt that we still had a lot
of love to give and an empty heart to fill again so we chose to adopt from China. I will have to say this "pregnancy" has been the worst - a lot longer than 9 months. Our paperwork went to China in July 2005,
and then we waited, and waited, and waited! We hoped for twins, not knowing if it would happen but after all “you can always try”. Our hopes, wishes, and most of all prayers were answered and October 10, 2006 we were united with our two precious little girls from Fuzhou, in Jiangxi Province. This is our journey.